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Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Media Violence Center
Its head, Iowahawk, has the latest report on the threat to our nation from these dangerous and violent MSM extremists.
Buy Health Insurance
…or lose your IRS refund. Well, there’s a solution to that. Don’t lend the government interest-free money.
How Was Karl Rove…?
…so clueless?
About four years ago, around the time when Democrats were heatedly charging that Bush had “lied” about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in order to build a case for war (after all, they argued, if the weapons had existed, why weren’t we able to find them after liberating Iraq?), I was having lunch with Dr. Laurie Mylroie, one of America’s leading students of terrorism in general, and Iraqi terrorism in particular. Laurie was beside herself with anger. Why wasn’t the Bush administration citing Gen. James Clapper, the Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, who said that satellite imagery proved conclusively that shortly before the war’s outbreak, Iraq had transferred its weapons of mass destruction to Syria? Why wasn’t it quoting Gen. Georges Sada, deputy chief of Saddam’s air force, or Gen. Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s chief-of-staff, both of whom also claimed that Saddam’s weapons had been transferred to Syria? Why was it so tongue-tied, so unsure of itself, so unwilling to answer its critics? Didn’t anybody in the White House realize that if the Democrats’ charges went unanswered, they would fatally undermine the entire case for the war?
By this time, however, I had left the White House, so I had to tell Laurie the truth: Her revelations about Generals Clapper and Sada (though not Ya’alon) were news to me, and I had no idea why the White House wasn’t citing them.
I couldn’t figure it out either. I guess now we know the reason.
Thanks for Obama, Karl. Hope it turns out better than it is right now.
Some ObamaCare Questions
…for the next Supreme Court Justice. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the press to ask them, though.
The Latest Lurio Report
Clark Lindsey has the T of C. I strongly encourage everyone to subscribe if you want to stay on top of New Space doings, and allow Charles to continue to do this. He was given a space journalism prize by the Space Frontier Foundation last year for a reason.
An Angel Killer
Rick Tumlinson says that’s what Chris Dodd’s proposed financial legislation is. And it’s not a problem just for space startups — this could put an end to Silicon Valley as we know it. For those who aren’t Obama worshippers, as Rick is (and I mean that in the nicest possible way), you might want to skip the first graf — it doesn’t really contribute much to the main point.
The Poisonous Politics
…of self esteem. Some estimable thoughts from Robert Samuelson.
Mars Needs Women
I guess I’m supposed to be impressed at the record number of women in space right now. I’m more depressed about how, almost fifty years after the beginning of human spaceflight, how few there are.
A New Senate Majority Leader
Seems pretty certain next year, one way or the other:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attracts just 39% to 42% of the Nevada vote when matched against three Republican opponents. Two of his potential opponents now top the 50% level of support.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey in the state also shows that 62% of Nevada’s voters support repealing the recently passed health care law. That’s a bit higher than support for repeal nationally.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) in Nevada say the new law will be bad for the country.
The new numbers show Reid trailing ex-GOP Chairman Sue Lowden 54% to 39%. Only four percent (4%) would prefer some other candidate while two percent (2%) are not sure.
Either the Dems will replace him (Durbin?) or the Republicans will take over. You have to think that in an environment in which a majority leader loses as badly as these polls indicate, the latter is not at all unlikely.
And I wonder how different history would have been if Reid hadn’t squeaked by a few years ago, due to the Libertarian vote in Nevada?